Never Pay a Speeding Ticket Again?

A couple weeks ago, Ian Ayres became briefly fascinated and somewhat appalled by the appearance of a new Internet business that offered a sort of insurance against speeding tickets. In return for an annual fee of $169, ticketfree.org promised to reimburse you for the costs of up to $500 in moving violations. Then, the site suddenly disappeared. Why?

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CHATHAM — The war over a $6-million lottery ticket sold here has torn apart a couple that should instead be sharing experiences “we could only dream of doing.”
That’s the pained perspective of Denise Robertson, 46, who has gone to court to win what she believes is her share of the massive jackpot her longtime live-in boyfriend, Maurice Thibeault, won Sept. 20 – before moving out without telling her about it.

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Countless Americans dream of striking it rich by scoring a winning lottery ticket. And while there's nothing wrong with taking a chance on a lotto ticket once in a while, many of us are wasting far too much cash on the unlikely prospect of instant wealth.

Prosecutors in Quebec will not appeal a sternly worded court decision that found flaws in photo-radar evidence for a $1,160 speeding ticket, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The court decision, released last month, came with a warning to prosecutors that similar evidence would no longer be tolerated — prompting Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre to voice concerns to the provincial government, “considering that thousands of tickets could be cancelled because the process was called inexact.”

A Pennsylvania couple who helped steal more than US$175,000 from a grocery store where they worked used that money to buy a winning US$1 million lottery ticket from the same store, state police said.
Joan Lechleitner, 51, and her fiance, Kerry Titus, 54, both of Pottsville, Pa., were charged Tuesday along with two other former employees with stealing from the Agway store in Cressona, Pa. They rang up bogus returns and pocketed the money from May 2011 until March 2016, police said in a criminal complaint.

The cranky judge is a staple of television courtroom drama, to enliven dry proceedings, but it takes a special kind of crankiness from the bench to actually sway a case.
So it was in the acquittal this week of Louis Mangov, a Toronto man whose conviction for speeding is now erased because of the impatient and irritated comments of his trial judge, who seemed to urge a guilty plea and scold him for defending himself in a manner that was deliberately “very long” and “too much.”

It's a classic scenario: you're cruising along at 10 miles over the speed limit in an attempt to keep up with the rest of the cars on the road. You think you are simply going with the flow of traffic, when you suddenly see flashing lights in your rear view mirror.